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scraped acquaintance during the past three weeks. It is 
needless to enumerate them all here. There were great 
rose-breasted Toucans, yellow-bellied Trogons, Swifts, 
Tanagers of five or six kinds, yellow and white-headed 
Manakins, black-headed and chestnut-breasted Finches, 
Parrots, Flycatchers of three of four kinds — in short, 
pretty nearly all the commoner birds of Trinidad. 
As we neared Chaguanas the sun became very hot 
and there were few birds singing except Trogons which 
love the heat (like our Tanagers) and some Vireos ( Vireo 
agilis ) in a large cacao grove near the station. 
I must not omit to mention one bird song which 
especially interested me because of its close resemblance 
to that of our Indigo Bird. It came from a thicket by 
the roadside and presently we saw the singer, which 
Chapman pronounced to be Sporophila . 
We had the vexation of missing our train by a 
few minutes only and in consequence were obliged to 
spend the entire forenoon at Chaguanas and take the noon 
train for San Joseph where we v/aited another hour, finally 
reaching Tacariqua at about 2.30 P. M. Mr. Lichfold 
was waiting for us. He had a mule for Chapman and a 
horse and trap for me. I said a horse, but the animal was 
really a pony which weighed, according to the driver who 
owned him, only about 400 pounds. Yet he is said to be 
